Basket-making machine.



No. 757,344. I PATENTED APR. 12, 1904.

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BASKET MAKING MAGHINE.

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ARNO POHORZELECK, OF OSCHATZ, GERMANY.

BASKET-MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,344, dated April 12, 1904:.

Application filed March 8, 1899. Serial No. 708,249. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, Aan'o PorIoRzELEcK, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Oschatz, Saxony, Germany, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Basket- Making Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to a machine for making baskets, according to which the wicker or osier is laid in by hand and pressed home automatically, thestaves or rods being shifted by specially-constructed mechanism.

The machine consists of the details of construction hereinafter set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In order to render the present specification more easily intelligible, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar charactersof reference denote similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a basket-making machine provided with a harness. Figs. 2 to 6 represent detail views of the latter, Fig. 2

being a detail elevation showing the shedforming mechanism; Fig. 3, a further detail showing the card-block being turned; Fig. 4:, a detail of the heddle-guiding mechanism; Figs. 5 and 6, plans of the cardblockoper ating mechanism and the shaft operating lever, respectively. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the cord for operating the rods of the basket in the machine shown at Fig. 1; Fig. 8, a similar view showing a modified form of the cord arrangement; Fig. 9, a plan of a heddle-guide frame for square baskets; Fig. 10, a plan of a beater, and Fig. 11 a section on line M M of Fig. 10. i

In this machine all the rods of each side of the basket are operated by a cord carried from one rod to the next. The basket-rod-operating cord 41* for each basket side is guided over a series of rolls of in a horizontal frameH, the said cord having suitable rod-eyes r or guides arranged between its guide-rolls d so that when pulled in one direction the alternate rods will all be moved in opposite directions, and vice versa. In connection with this machine harness may be used, and consequently any kind of basket-work may be produced on the same without substantially altering the machine. Within the frame H a smaller frame Z is arranged in the same plane, and these two frames carry the guide-rolls d, on which the cord at is guided in the manner shown at Figs. 7 and 8, passing from the roll of one frame to that of the next, and so on until all therolls have been passed. As will be seen from Fig. 7 the cord may be passed singly round the rolls of the frames, or it may be double, as at Fig. 8. Arranged in the said cord between the guide-rolls are the eyes 1' for the basket-rods. If one end of the cord 11, is pulled, the positions of the basket-rods will be reversed, whereupon the withes are laid in, and after being driven home the cord is pulled in the opposite direction, and the withes are again laid in and beaten home. The ends of the said cord are attached to the ends of the double levers 3, which are pivotally mounted at 2, so that when the said levers are rocked the said cord will be reciprocated, as previously described. The movement of the levers may be effected by means of rods 4 in a manner similar to that of a Jacquard loom.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 8, the ends of each cord a are attached one at each end of each lever 3, of which any desired number may be employed, according as to whether the cords are arranged single,Fig. 7 or double, Fig. 8,

or maniford, as will be easily intelligible. The shafts 3 are pivotally supported at about their centers at 2 in the frame and are operated or tipped to actuate the cords 01* and form the various sheds by means of arms 4, suspended from one end of the said shafts and adapted under certain circumstances, hereinafter set forth, to be engaged with a verticallyreciprocated lever 8, pivotally supported at one end in the frame, as at 21. This lever is drawn down by means of a catch 10 on the cord 11, to which the beater V, is attached. When the lever 15 is actuated to allow the beater V to fall, the catch 10 takes the reciprocating lever down with it, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the former figure showing the lever in its upper position and the latter in its downward position. Each of the levers 3 is provided with a hanger-bar 4., having an enlarged lower end and adapted by means of its slot 15? to embrace the cross-bar 20, Fig. 6, of the reciprocating lever 8. The bar of the particular lever or levers to be actuated at a fall of the beater is caused to engage with the said cross-bar by means of a card-block 35, mounted revolubly and to slide in lateral guide-slots 36, the said block having orifices therethrough, in which levers 17, mounted to slide horizontally, may engage. The said levers 17 are normally pressed toward: the block by means of a spring, and those levers which are not to be operated will be pushed back by the block unless orifices of the same are in a line with the rods 17, in which case the ends 18 of the rods will pass into the orifices under the action of the springs, and since each rod engages one of the bars 4 those bars the rods of which have entered the corresponding orifices of the card-block willengage the bar 20 of the reciprocating lever 8 and be pulled down by the same, while the rods which have been pushed back by the block 35 will carry the bars 4 back with them out of reach of the cross-bar 20 of the said reciprocating lever. The means for reciprocating the card-block 35 and for turning the same a certain angle at each reciprocation consist of a downwardlyspring-pressed hook 27 adapted to hook over the rear edge of the block when it is in its advanced position, as indicated at Fig. 1, and an angle-lever 25, pivotally mounted at 26 and: having its upper arm pivoted to a link 24:, which is pivoted to the block 35. The pivot of this angle-lever arm is stationary, and when the arm 25 of the same is depressed by a lug on the cord 11 (indicated by 9) the block will be pulled back from its forward position, and .in its backward movement it will be turned by the spring-hook 27 engaging behind its rear edge, as will be clearly seen from Fig. 3. The motion of the beater V is advantageously a positive one in both directions, the said beater being connected by rods 14 to a lower cross-piece 13, Fig. 1, and the lever 15 being coupled to a lever 12 at the lower part of the machine.

The machine is not rotated oy machinery, but. is mounted in a revoluble frame, which may be rotated by hand whenv necessary.

Baskets of any desired shape may be produced by means of the present machine.

If a square basket is to be made, the frame H, Fig. 9, isemployed and a square beaterframe V to correspond is necessary, Figs. 10 and 11. The rings are advantageously shaped to keep the cords tightly drawn, and the shape of the beater ring or frame is adapted to correspond to that of the basket being made.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine for making baskets, the combination of means adjustably supporting the.

bottom of the basket with the rods or stakes thereon, a series of reeds to embrace and operate the upper ends of said rods or stakes, and a cord to connect up said reeds for each side of the basket and operate the same to form sheds according to the direction of pull on said cord, means for operating the cord,

and means for beating home the hand-laid withes, substantially as described.

2. In a machine for making baskets, the combination of the table to support the basket-bottom and the stakes thereon, means for supporting the said table in a rotatable and vertically-adjustable manner, a frame to rotate with said table, a series of reeds mounted in said frame to embrace the upper ends of the said stakes, means for operating said reeds to form sheds also mounted in said rotary frame, a beater having slots for the passage of the said stakes, and means for raising the same and allowing it to suddenly fall to beat home the hand-laid withes immediately before the change of shed, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

ARNO POHORZELECK.

Witnesses:

HERMFSACK, RUDOLPH FRIoKE. 

